Frischknecht
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fɾistʃknetʃt̪/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Frischknecht is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 330Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,685 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Frischknecht counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #222 | 2,685 | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | Frischknecht | 68 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Frischknecht | 53 |
| US United States | — | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 246 | Frischknecht | 97 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Frischknecht | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Frischknecht | 4 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Frischknecht | 11 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Frischknecht | 1 |
2,685 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Johann Konrad Frischknechtb. 1767CH(1767-1842)
- Johannes Frischknechtb. 1850CH(1850-1911)
- Fritz Frischknechtb. 1893CHSwiss painter
- Hans Eugen Frischknechtb. 1939CHSwiss composer and choir director
- Peter Frischknechtb. 1946CHSwiss cyclo-cross cyclist (born 1946)
- Jürg Frischknechtb. 1947CHSwiss journalist and writer (1947-2016)
- Thomas Frischknechtb. 1970CHSwiss cyclist
- Oliver Frischknechtb. 1979CHSwiss stage actor
- Andri Frischknechtb. 1994CHSwiss cyclist
- Paul FrischknechtAUAustralian architect
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.7K | #313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 246 | #82,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 215 | #81,700 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Frischknecht?
- In Spanish /fɾistʃknetʃt̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Frischknecht have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Frischknecht, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frischknecht.
- Where is Frischknecht most common?
- Frischknecht is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Frischknecht?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,685 people named Frischknecht in 2024, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Frischknecht compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Frischknecht is the 222nd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frischknechtThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frischknecht” — the 222nd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.